Essays and Orations, Read and Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians: To which is Added an Account of the Opening of the Tomb of King Charles I. |
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Page 47 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Page xvi - those landmarks pulled down, by which all men ' knew every particular place in that church, and ' such a dismal mutation over the whole, that they
Page 75 - Bacon, one of the wisest men who has lived, encourages physicians to make it a part of their art to smooth the bed of death and to render the departure from life easy, placid and gentle. " This doctrine, so accordant with the best principles of our nature, commended not only by the wisdom of this consummate philosopher but also by the experience of one of the most judicious and conscientious physicians of modern times, the late Dr.
Page 67 - Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to have administered in the last hours of their lives, I have sometimes felt surprised that so few have appeared reluctant to go to ' the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns.
Page 56 - Coena desurgat dubia ? Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis animum quoque praegravat una Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.
Page 130 - Islington, where he was waiting for his sister, whom he had directed to meet him: there was then nothing of disorder discernible in his mind by any but himself; but he had withdrawn from study, and travelled with no other book than an English Testament, such as children carry to the school: when his friend took it into his hand, out of curiosity to see what companion a Man of Letters had chosen, ' I have but one book,' said Collins,
Page iii - The complexion of the skin of it was dark and discoloured. The forehead and temples had lost little or nothing of their muscular substance; the cartilage of the nose was gone; but the left eye, in the first moment of exposure, was open and full, though it vanished almost immediately; and the pointed beard, so characteristic of the period of the reign of King Charles, was perfect. The shape of the face was a long oval; many of the teeth remained; and the left ear, in consequence of the interposition...
Page 70 - ... aggravate his danger. And unless I shall have found him averse from doing what was necessary in aid of my remedies, from a want of a proper sense of his perilous situation, I forbear to step out of the bounds of my province in order to offer any advice which is not necessary to promote his cure. At the same time, I think it indispensable to let his friends know the danger of his case the instant I discover it. An arrangement of his worldly affairs, in which the comfort or...
Page 27 - I was then called, and another inquiry was made, some few hours afterwards, by one of the most experienced surgeons in London, whether the bladder contained any urine or not, when it appeared clearly that there was none. The patient sat up in bed and conversed as usual, complaining of some nausea, but of nothing material in his own view; and I remember that his friends expressed their surprize that so much importance should be attached to so little apparent illness.
Page 72 - If, in cases attended with danger in private life, the physician has need of discretion and sound sense to direct his conduct, the difficulty must doubtless be increased when his patient is of so elevated a station, that his safety becomes an object of anxiety to the nation. In such circumstances, the physician has a duty to perform, not only to the sick personage and his family, but also to the public, who, in their extreme...